Improve your study habits:

• Concept maps
  • What are they? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUEqM-4BP4w
  • How to make one by hand (introduction): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZJj6DwCqSU
  • Why they work as self-study aids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSrlIP3yVjs (it’s a bit long, so click on Chapters to navigate quickly through the video)
  • Rather long presentation on using concept mapping in teaching and learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHG66opp5Y&t=45s
  • How they are used in exams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQX0tJw8dhs
  • Download and use Cmaps and/or Serolearn.
• Practical tips for students and teachers (in our Zotero database): learn how to ask good questions, use analogy (like the lock-and-key concept of how enzymes work), construct concept maps, join a peer-tutoring group, develop critical thinking skills, do self-reflection, use learning resources, ask for feedback, apply knowledge to new problems, use simulations, learn by doing.

Online books and journals:

Those which are recommended by ECLAM can be accessed here. 

• Interactive e-books from the University of Georgia (USA) on general veterinary topics: https://books.apple.com/us/author/educational-resources-university-of-georgia/id1021256510?see-all=books

Websites and Wikis

• Norecopa has a Refinement Wiki with many interesting pages. Please consider becoming a contributor. https://wiki.norecopa.no/index.php/Special:AllPages

Courses

• Fondazione Guido Bernardini
• Davis-Thompson Foundation for the advancement of veterinary and comparative pathology. They have a Spanish section as well as English courses.
• British Society of Toxicological Pathology has many courses of interest for lab animal vets.
• EUPRIM-Net: for nonhuman primate courses
• Karolinska Institutet offers free webinars in lab animal science which provide basic knowledge for residents